Shell script for monitoring GitHub status (with emoji cats).

github-is.sh

#!/bin/sh

while :
do
  api_response=$(http https://status.github.com/api/status.json)
  gh_status=$(echo "$api_response" | jq ".status" | sed "s/\"//g")
  gh_at=$(date -v $(date +%z)H -jf "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ" $(echo "$api_response" | jq ".last_updated" | sed "s/\"//g"))

  case $gh_status in
    "good")
      cat="😸";;
    "minor")
      cat="😿";;
    "major")
      cat="🙀";;
  esac

  printf "GitHub is $cat  as of $gh_at\r"

  sleep 1
done

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